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Welcome to Mount Summit ...

Mount Summit is located in Hamilton County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Summit, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1890.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Summit: Mt. Summit

Mount Summit is 870 feet [265 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mount Summit lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Mount Summit: 513 & 283<3>

Communities Also Named Mount Summit ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Mount Summit - it's located in Indiana.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Summit.

Communities near Mount Summit ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Summit.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mount Summit. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Summit.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Summit. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mount Summit.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Summit. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Summit.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mount Summit ...

Looking for more information about Mount Summit? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Mount Summit, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mount Summit.

Adding Mount Summit to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Summit in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mount Summit was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Mount Summit post office opened in 1890.

We also found Mount Summit in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Summit.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Ohio's counties, including Hamilton, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Summit - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 513 code has been Overlayed with the 283 area code. New phone numbers in the Mount Summit area will be assigned with one of these codes: 513 or 283. As a result, placing a call in the Mount Summit area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/